I'm creating my first Google-based tour (well, publishing an existing bespoke tour on to Google as well) and I'm setting up the APIU key. Do I have to pay for it? I've got so far in to the API process, but a splash screen has popped up asking to "Enable billing for project"....

I had to delete all realted with google maps on my site ( www.burger.si ) as the calculation was that regarding the traffic (internal use - intranet with maps calls and internet) would be over 4K euros a month and even promoting Google logo.

Eric, you will want to use your own key. Right now, you can use Google Maps in the Tour Map, but Google might change their usage rules at anytime, and we may need to disable it. If you use your own key, you won't run into any problems, then.

@Svendus, What Hopki means is that, this key, that Thomas is showing, should only be used for searching/viewing in the Tour Map and placing Place IDs for Google Street View and to not use this key for the map element in the skin because you can't lock it down to your domain -- because this could cause issues in Pano2VR. Better is to use a second key for the map element and have it locked to your domain.

Ok thanks
So untill Google change their mind we leave it open for Street View upload and we use another mapprowider on the webb.
it is rather a sad story with the mobile SV application the Android version crashed some dayes ago and the iOS version got no preview for over a year.